Category Archives: Weather

New POES Receiver Setup

Posted on 2017-09-16 by Nigel VH

For the last few years I have off and on run a receiver dedicated to picking up the image transmissions from NOAA’s POES series of satellites. The POES satellites are polar orbiting weather satellites that transmit image data down, and … Continue reading →

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2017 Balloons Launch

Posted on 2017-05-25 by Nigel VH

This year we had a bit larger class, so two strings were flown this year, in addition to some other groups flying experimental packages. The first flight reached approximately 105,000ft in altitude, and carried carried a number of student payloads, … Continue reading →

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Basic ESD Protection

Posted on 2017-05-25 by Nigel VH

A recent thunderstorm that came through the area reminded me that I needed to work on some improvements to my surge suppression systems. I have a number of outdoor ethernet devices like security cameras with rather long runs of cable … Continue reading →

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Generator Box

Posted on 2017-02-14 by Nigel VH

A little while ago I picked up a generator for use in power outages to keep things like the fridge and computer equipment going in the case of an outage that’s lasting more than a few hours. While, one of … Continue reading →

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Homebrew Weather Station

Posted on 2016-04-12 by Nigel VH

I’ve recently been playing with the Electric Imp platform of Internet of Things devices. They’re fairly inexpensive, and very easy to use, so when SparkFun recently was having a sale, I picked up their Weather Shield, and Sensors. With some … Continue reading →

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